"No Time to Die", the 25th James Bond film from EON Productions, was also released in the IMAX format in selected Danish cinemas. 40 minutes of "No Time to Die" was shot on 65mm IMAX film which expands the frame vertically when projected in IMAX.
SF Studios produced this Danish version of the international IMAX poster based on the opening sequence from "No Time to Die". The poster image shows James Bond (Daniel Craig) on a Triumph Scrambler motorbike in Matera, Italy.
From 1982 to 1991, Swedish publishing house Semic AB were licenced by Glidrose Publications Ltd. (i.e. the Ian Fleming estate) to produce new and official comic book adventures starring James Bond 007 for the Scandinavian market.
Most of these stories ran 24 pages in black and white and were stand-alone comics made specifically for the 17x26 cm magazine format by Spanish artists. The scripts varied wildly in style as well as quality and ran the gamut from subdued spy stories to ridiculous science fiction adventures featuring robots and clones. The latter ones were usually the work of British writer Jack Sutter who was by far the most prolific writer for the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish James Bond comic books.
Jack Sutter passed away in 2020. All of his original James Bond scripts were lost to water damage some years earlier - except for one typewritten treatment for the James Bond story "Doctor Glass". Thanks to Sutter's daughter, James Bond•O•Rama.dk are now in possession of Sutter's first draft for the story eventually named "Deadly Double".
In Denmark, "Deadly Double" was published as "Dødsensfarlig dobbeltgænger" in the anthology series Agent X9 no. 112 issued by Interpresse on April 27, 1988. One notable change from Jack Sutter's first treatment is that the villain was originally called Ernst Stavro Blofeld! Eventually this was amended to "Faust the Anarchist". In the final version of the comic Bond expresses surprise upon meeting Faust even though the villain has never before or since appeared in any kind of authorized James Bond litterature. One might wonder whether someone at Glidrose Publications alerted Semic to the fact that they did not have the rights to utilize the Blofeld character in the comics?
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● When Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal) are reporting to their leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Eric Pohlmann) on a SPECTRE boat, he is sitting at a desk created by Danish furniture designer Bodil Kjær (born 1932).
Cabinetmakers E. Pedersen & Søn produced the free-standing working table from Pao Ferro wood on a chromium-plated steel frame. Kjær originally designed the desk in 1959 as part of the "Office Units" collection for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This very fotogenic example of Danish Modern later found its way onto the silver screen in "You Only Live Twice" (EON 1967) and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (EON 1969). Allegedly, both Sean Connery and Michael Caine privately owned Bodil Kjær desks. Today a company called Karakter Copenhagen is still manufacturing the Office Desk albeit in oak or walnut with an aluminum frame.
Bodil Kjær's Office Desk at Karakter Copenhagen (external site)
In this new blog series James Bond•O•Rama.dk will attempt to cover every connection to Denmark seen on-screen in the James Bond 007 film series. If you spot a detail that we have missed, please fill us in!
● In this scene from "Dr. No", the receptionist at the Jamaican hotel where James Bond (Sean Connery) is staying hands him a telegramme and a car key. On the wall behind the receptionist (Malou Pantera) you can clearly see the Danish flag known as the Dannebrog. It's the second flag from the left with a white cross on a red backing.
Time code (Blu-ray): 00:41:22
● A year before Marguerite LeWars appeared as the villainous "freelance" press photographer in "Dr. No", the young actress was crowned Miss Cherry Heering in a Jamaican beauty contest. The title was named after a internationally successful Danish brand of cherry liqueur which at the time was produced in the Copenhagen neighbourhood of Christianshavn.
Thanks to flag spotter Rikart Købke.
